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Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders

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Publications Rethink Anonymous Comments. Should Your Site?

The Washington Post, New York Times and several other papers are rethinking policies that allow online commenters to remain anonymous, according to a report in the New York Times. The Washington Post, for example, is considering giving greater weight to comments that are signed. The Huffington Post is another example; that site is expected to announce changes that rank commenters based on how well other r  [...]

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'Sunday Times' to Become Test Case for Murdoch's Paid Content Plans

Rupert Murdoch plans to use the Sunday Times as a test for his new push to charge for online content, beginning in November. The Sunday Times website is currently combined with sister title the Times, but it will be launched as a stand-alone site in the fall and will begin charging a fee to access content, according to the Guardian. So far, it is unclear whether the s  [...]

AP Software Tracks Appropriation of Content

The Associated Press is adding software to its articles, intended to inform readers of usage rights associated with the content -- and act as a policing agent, automatically informing the AP about how the article elsewhere online. Each article will be published with a digital "wrapper" -- data not visible to users that maximizes the content's ranking in search engines and tracks its movements across the web. The program will be introduced in stages stretching over the course of the next year,  [...]

LiveJournal Cuts 20% of Workforce

LiveJournal, a mature blog community launched in 1999, cut 12 employees -- about 20% of its workforce -- without severance yesterday, reports Gawker (via LiveJournal's xb95). A previous version of this article stated the staff cut consisted of 20 employees. In an email to the editor, a company representative corrected the figure. In December 2007  [...]

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Brad Pitt, Beyonce 'Most Dangerous Names to Search'

A recent McAfee study finds users seeking Brad Pitt-oriented themes, including photos, screensavers or desktop wallpaper, have an 18 percent chance of encountering malware, reports Ars Technica. At-risk searchers sometimes click on fake celebrity websites that infect their computers with Trojans and worms. "These websites differ from standard malware landing pads, inasmuc  [...]

United Kingdom Cracks Down on 'Suicide Sites'

Since the Suicide Act of 1961, the United Kingdom considers it illegal to promote suicide. The act will be amended to include web publishers with so-called "suicide websites," and to help internet service providers police sites for such content, reports the BBC, following concerns that users querying for suicide information hope to locate sites encouraging them to do it. "Updating the language of the Suicide Act [...] should help to  [...]

Google's Analytics: Biased Toward Google Sites?

Some publishers are suspicious about the accuracy of panel-based measurement systems (e.g., comScore, Nielsen NetRatings), believing their count to be grossly underneath the real number of unique visitors to their sites. Now they have growing reason to suspect Google of worse, even biased, figures. Panel-based measurement gathers a sample of internet users and records their habits, typically by installing software on their computers that track online activity. The data is then scaled out t  [...]

Olympics Coverage: Too Hot for NBC to Share

NBC lawyers are working around the clock to prevent millions of online publishers from "stealing" Olympic coverage and embedding it on unauthorized blogs, websites and social networking pages. The network is also issuing takedown notices to video sharing sites like Veetle.com:   [...]

1 in 5 Senior Marketers Buy Ads for Illicit Online News Love

Pondering whether advertising has corrupted contemporary editors, Ogilvy & Mather's David Ogilvy once quipped, "The vast majority of editors are incorruptible." Unless he was joking, it would appear that's becoming less true. Nearly one in five (19 percent) of senior marketers admit their organizations bought ads on a news site in exchange for a news story,   [...]

Knol Could Knock Wikipedia Down a Notch

This week Google unveiled Knol, a Wikipedia rival, after six months in beta. Knol is a publicly-authored knowledge site. To protect against page vandalism without stifling community input, new pages are placed under "moderated collaboration," meaning anyone can add to them but contributions only go live after the original author(s) review them. Google's decision to cur  [...]

AP Ends Blogger Battle Over Fair Use of Content

The Associated Press (AP) reports it has resolved its conflict with copyright-infringing bloggers. The AP recently attacked bloggers in a media fight about "fair use" of content. Specifically, it took issue with bloggers excerpting titles or sentences from its articles, which other publications mus  [...]

AP, Blogging Group to Create Unified Guidelines

This Thursday, the Associated Press (AP) will meet with the Media Bloggers Association in hopes of creating appropriate guidelines for quoting AP stories, reports Wired (via the AP). Prominent bloggers recently critiqued the AP for its defensive stance o  [...]

AP Takes Bloggers on in Copyright Fight; Arrington Boycotts It

The Associated Press is battling small online news sites -- in essence, bloggers -- that have "quoted too heavily" from its stories, reports the Guardian. The news site takes issue with bloggers that quote large excerpts from a news story, even if they link to the original article. Irene Keselman, the intellectual property governance coordinator for the AP, sent a letter to the Dr  [...]

Gentoo Awarded Nearly $200K for 'Net Libel Damages; Representative Demands Web Publisher Conduct Code

Gentoo Sunderland, formerly the Sunderland Housing Group, has been awarded £100,000 (about $199,434) in compensation for cyber harassment. This is the highest amount ever awarded in the UK for internet libel damages. Several years ago the firm was targeted by anonymous website Dad'  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 4/3/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: CEO Matt Sanchez admitted Videoegg will incorporate non-video ad inventory because the in-video ad market is still small. 18,000 broadband users in the UK unknowingly had t  [...]

Online Dating Conceives New Type of Identity Theft

Of the 125 million people in the US that use online dating and social networking sites, The Wall Street Journal writes of a growing number of people stealing personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems. Online daters increasingly feel as though they must sell themselves like a product. The heavy personal promotion that results from this mindset turns people into prime p  [...]